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prescriptive |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prescriptive \Pre*scrip"tive\, a. [L. praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal exception.] (Law) Consisting in or acquired by immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom. The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. --J. M. Mason. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: prescriptive adj 1: (grammar) giving directives or rules "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" [syn: {normative}] [ant: {descriptive}] 2: based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative grammar" [syn: {normative}]
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